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Altered Echo is a community driven Creative Commons project. Our goal is to encourage creativity and diversity in an increasingly homogenized and prepackaged musical climate by providing a community and outlet for artists whose music might otherwise get swept under the proverbial rug.

Taking the idea that art is a process of collage and mutation further, we also have asked that all our artists make available at least some of the source sounds from their work in the form of stems and samples for others to use in their own musical endeavors. We encourage the audience, who’ve been inspired by our artists sounds, to share their creations with us by sending in their work for review and possible publication through our project.

Think infinite remix project. That's Altered Echo.

Altered Echo was officially launched, well, today! And our first release, AEP001, will be available for free download July, 2nd. This release features six artists and six aural visions of what music can be. Stems and samples from at least two of the tracks and will be provided in the zipped download.

We encourage IDMf members to download and enjoy these artists music. Just as importantly we encourage each of you to use the provided samples to go off and make more wonderful music. Then, hopefully send it back to us for possible publication through AEP.

This would not have been possible without all of the things we've picked up during out stay here at IDMf. So we want to encourage everyone to participate, submit remixes, then submit works of your own for consideration.

At present we have a handful of artists, most of who you all know, that will be releasing EPs, LPs, and remixes via this project. All future releases will be announced in the member release section of this forum and made available for free download via the Altered-Echo Collective website.

As with AEP001 and any future releases stems and samples will be provided. Swich Licour has been kind enough to stem out the title track "Static Bounce." As always, use them, abuse them, do with them what you will. However, we strongly encourage any artist, at any level, to resubmit new works made from the old back to us for republication through this project.

Direct download, including samples, will be made available via the AEP website, and a link will be posted in the Member Releases section of this forum 08/02/13.

The idea is really solid guys. I think this is exactly what the community needs and I'll definitely try to be a part of it. One thing though, as a pro web guy myself maybe you could pick a different WP theme. I know you're trying to keep it simple fresh but you can barely see the search bar text. . If you want some help, I'm a CSS pro.

The idea is really solid guys. I think this is exactly what the community needs and I'll definitely try to be a part of it. One thing though, as a pro web guy myself maybe you could pick a different WP theme. I know you're trying to keep it simple fresh but you can barely see the search bar text. . If you want some help, I'm a CSS pro.

We might take you up on the offer. Neither of us are really web guys. I'll have a dig around at some point and see if there is something else clean/simple with a more visible search bar.

Looks interesting. Best of luck with the project . Looks like an outlet for some really unique/strange/experimental music.

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So we want to encourage everyone to participate, submit remixes, then submit works of your own for consideration

So how does that work then. If various people are submitting single tracks, do you hold on to them & then stick them onto a release when you've got enough tracks to warrant it? Also will you have a social-media monkey on-board to help get the word out about the music?

Looks interesting. Best of luck with the project . Looks like an outlet for some really unique/strange/experimental music.
So how does that work then. If various people are submitting single tracks, do you hold on to them & then stick them onto a release when you've got enough tracks to warrant it? Also will you have a social-media monkey on-board to help get the word out about the music?

I think we are still coming up with a way to make this really clear, but we will have a variety of opportunities including:

1. submitting remixes/tunes created with stems from our previous releases (these can be taken beyond a simple remix, total sonic destruction is OK too).

2. various artist compilation contests

3. open submission periods for new work

I think at the moment we are playing things by ear, but yes I'd imagine we will hold on to singles for a while until we have a group to release. Though to be honest, I would love to see someone do something like take our first release chop stuff out of all the songs, use the sample pack provided, and come up with their own EP and submit that. For me, that's what this project is about.

At the moment RFJ and I are handling almost everything. There will be a facebook page and a Sound Cloud presence. I can only speak for myself, but I think we'd be open to help in the social media monkey department.